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Rodgers' interview was good. He got choked up talking about the reception he got when he came back on the field. As Wilde said, (and I paraphrase): thanks for making the show happen; you didn't have to do this, and everybody would have understood.

Rodgers will get paid around $750,000 per week whether he's playing or not. Meanwhile hundreds of thousands of Americans are going to work today in spite of their injuries and aches & pains simply so they can pay their bills and put food on the table.

Don't want to minimalize Rodgers' injury, but I have to wonder how many of these professional athletes would play through their injuries if it meant them being paid or not.

I think he's trying to say that most people get up in the morning with pain and would just rather roll over and go back to sleep, instead they get up, deal with the pain and go to work.

Rodgers might be in pain but he's not paid like a king to play through it, even in circumstances like these. He plays one damn day a week, if he gets hurt again -- well then so be it, it wasn't meant to be. But if the guy is healthy enough to run to and from the field and stand on the sideline with no sling and (didn't look like he was in much pain standing there), Brett Favre wouldn't sit that's all I know.

Yes Favre would have sat! No one is saying he wasn't a tough SOB but there is such a thing as being just plain stupid. The chance of losing him for the season is not worth the risk. I know Favre played with the broken finger but there was no chance of further injury in that case. Favre himself admitted that there were a couple times when he lucked out and got a by e week or he would not have been able to go. Any one who says Favre would have played through it is just to stupid to be believed!

Shivas, there is no way you would go to work with a fractured collarbone and be as effective. That is basically what is happening here. And you would especially not go to work if you job put you at risk to injure yourself further. Your employer would be crazy to allow you to work. The Packers are not letting Rodgers play because he could injure himself even further, putting the entire team and season in jeopardy. This is the best decision like it or not. And Rodgers has no say in whether he plays or not this week. That is up to the doctors.

These guys get paid well, but not for long. They do things on the field that at my physical peak (many years ago) I couldn't even dream about. If I had ever played one play in the NFL I would not be alive to comment on here.

Are they heroes? Heck no. But you don't get to the NFL unless you are incredibly talented and work incredibly hard.

Shivas, Rodgers said he wanted to come back in the game last night. The decision of whether he plays or not isn't on him deciding to play through injury or not. The Packers won't play him until he is healthy.

Gravy, good point, and I am sure Aaron would be the first to acknowledge that. There is a reason he showed up. He is a class act and honors his commitments if he can. I think the point Wilde was making is that there are plenty of uncommitted pro athletes out there that may not have shown up. He was appreciative that Rodgers was not one of them.

As for Rodgers playing, I am sure he would have played through the pain if he wasn't at risk of being lost for the season. As others have said, the decision was probably taken away from him by the medical staff and McCarthy so the point is moot. If the decision was his, it would have been stupid to re-enter the game and take the risk.

PROPACKY -- really? Favre wouldn't sit? Ha! Must be you've already forgotten the sterno-clavicle sprain from a hit by Alfred Moats in 2010 that forced him out of the Buffalo game. That's "clavicle" as in "collarbone". Bromance can make you stupid ... .

Where's McGinns byline? I warned him he was mess'in with the gods when he wrote that article on Wallace the other day. Who says superstition is dead? I told McGinn if anything happened to Rodgers, he'd be tarred and feathered and exiled to Minnesota.

I dont care if seneca wallace had a week to practice or not. His record as a starter is completely abysmal, his stats suck, and he can hardly throw the ball more than 10 yards. There should have been 2 pick 6's last night and that play he missed Nelson wide open, and that play where he missed an open Quarless in the end zone pretty much sum him up. I understand injuries can happen, but out of the 300 million people in the United States of AMerica I am sure there is at least 1 option far more viable than Wallace. He is still living off of 2 good games he had like 10 years ago, and the last start he won was in 2010. Dont doubt he is a great person, and he has made quite a career out of being a backup, but seriously.... I am usually on board with THompson's conservative nature, but there is no way you can say this guy is better than VInce young, or even that scrub Graham Harrell for that matter.

Hindsight is 20/20 however, the offensive line has been a problem for a very long time. Favre took too many unnecessary hits and Rodgers has taken a bunch of punishment as well. He is the franchise and needs to be protected. Do you see pretty boy Brady taking hits like that on a weekly basis? No. He sets up shop in the pocket and just passes at will. ARodg would carve defense's more than he already does with that kind of protection. The Bears protect some second string cast-off and make him look like a superstar. Getting tired of hearing how the O-line has improved and "loves" to run block blah blah blah...... Gotta protect Arodg. Period.

Time to start looking ahead toward the draft. The Packers are now guaranteed a top 10 pick, much to Thompson's pleasure.

In the NFL, quarterbacks determine wins and losses. Beginning with the 2008 season, the Packers have always ranked dead last in the league in toughness. Having just a single bona fide QB is not enough.

TED you are so humble. You did not even tell them how your father had just died, your brother was diagnosed with cancer and your house went up in flames the night before the game. Your feat was truly remarkable. I watched the game on ESPN.

Favre was a tough son of a gun, no doubt, but speaking in hypotheticals is pointless. There is no way the training staffs in 2013 will allow their starting QB to go back on the field with a fractured collarbone. This is not 1994.

Yeah, Favre would have played through it, and then throw 4 picks. Making good decisions on and off the field is not his forte. But he sure is a tough SOB, and I still appreciate everything he was able to accomplish with the Packers.

Nothing like a Bears loss combined with a major injury to bring out the nattering nabobs, whiners, and Bear phags.. err, fans... in droves. It also brings out the couch-bound tough guys who know how to play hard with broken bones, despite never having had one.

Enjoy your little hollow anti-victory and opportunity to vent to the world what sorry little souls you are. I'm going to a) go bass fishing tomorrow morning and b) enjoy watching this team get it together once again. Will Tolzien pull out the bacon (check out what Keenum did the other night, if you don't believe in 3rd stringers)? How fun would that be?

Really, the loss of Lang was just as big last night in some ways, because then we lost the other weapon we had - the run game. The run game went 14-36 once 2-yard Newhouse entered the game proving once again that he's been where he belongs - on the pine.

This is the NFL in 2013, what do you mean "tape yourself up"? Was Lang supposed to tape his head since he sustained a concussion? Was Rodgers supposed to tape his collarbone? Please try and make some sense.

mvitch, you have started your NFL scouting career off with a 100% correct rating. Although admit it, that wasn't a tough call to come to that conclusion yet we did win with him last year over there, surprising though.

You'll see him in 5 weeks. Even if he is good to go for Lions they know they have 10 days after that game and given the way this team babies injuries they will give him the extra time. Of course there is a good chance they will be 6-6 by then.

As depleted as this team was Monday and losing Rogers, they still should have won this game. Poor coverage in the defensive backfield, poor tackling, and linebackers who didn't cover one of the best backs (Forte) when he slips out of the backfield. Still should have beaten them.

There's no telling about Wallace yet, no matter what he looked like last night. Recall when AR went down with the concussion in the Lions game? Flynn came in and looked terrible. The next week, with him getting all the reps, they almost beat NE. We'll see.